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Call for Papers Theme: Strangers, Aliens and Foreigners Type: 3rd Global Conference Institution: Inter-Disciplinary.Net Mansfield College, University of Oxford Location: Oxford (United Kingdom) Date: 27.–29.9.2011 Deadline: 25.3.2011 __________________________________________________ Call for Papers This multi-disciplinary project seeks to explore the crucial place that strangers, aliens and foreigners have for the constitution of self, communities and societies. In particular the project will assess world transformations, like phenomena we associate with the term ‘globalisation’, new forms of migration and the massive movements of people across the globe, as well as the impact they have on the conceptions we hold of self and other. Looking to encourage innovative trans-disciplinary dialogues, we warmly welcome papers from all disciplines, professions and vocations which struggle to understand what it means for people, the world over, to forge a sense of self in rapidly changing contexts where it is no longer possible to ignore the importance of strangers, aliens and foreigners for our contemporary nations, societies and cultures. Papers, workshops and presentations are invited on any of the following themes: 1. Transformations of Self ~ How is Self interwoven with Other? And the many ways in which Self depends on Other ~ Acknowledging the importance of strangers for our lives, for our sense of well-being ~ Recognising our dependence on aliens and foreigners for our communities, cities and towns, for our countries and nations ~ The decline of the value of sameness and homogeneity, the rise of diversity and plurality ~ Opposing the construction of self by othering, excluding and stigmatising 2. Boundaries, Communities and Nations ~ Who is a stranger? Aliens and foreigners to whom? ~ New migrants, new migratory flows and massive movements from peripheral to central countries ~ Trans-national networks and the blurring of boundaries; are we living trans-national and post-national realities? ~ Assimilation, integration, adaptation and other forms of placing the responsibility of change on foreigners ~ What has happened to ideas like acceptance, hospitality and cosmopolitanism 3. Economies, Institutions and Migrants ~ Labour migration as key for economic growth and prosperity ~ The politics of making aliens, foreigners and migratory labour ‘invisible’ ~ Global politics of money over people; new forms of global exclusion ~ Social movements, new rebellion and alternative globalisations ~ Trans-cultural connections that escape institutional and political control 4. Art and Representations ~ Production and reproduction of cultural typing and stereotyping ~ The contested space of representing self and other, native and foreigner ~ Art, media and how to challenge the rigid constructions of art and culture ~ Fictions of strangers, stories of aliens, fables of foreigners ~ The artistic constructions of otherness 5. Self (inevitably) linked to Other ~ De-centering selves; who am I if not the relation with others? ~ Thinking and acting with others in mind; orienting life inter-subjectively ~ Tensions, contradictions and conflicts of living recognising aliens and foreigners ~ Bonds of care across boundaries of inequality and exclusion, ideologies and religions, politics and power, nations and geography ~ Non-recognition as social and cultural violence The 2011 meeting of Strangers, Aliens and Foreigners will run alongside a fourth of our projects on Making Sense Of: Madness and we anticipate holding sessions in common between the two projects. We welcome any papers or panels considering the problems or addressing issues that cross both projects. Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 25th March 2011. If an abstract is accepted for the conference, a full draft paper should be submitted by Friday 22nd July 2011. 300 word abstracts should be submitted to the Organising Chairs; abstracts may be in Word, WordPerfect, or RTF formats, following this order: a) author(s), b) affiliation, c) email address, d) title of abstract, e) body of abstract E-mails should be entitled: Strangers Abstract Submission Please use plain text (Times Roman 12) and abstain from using any special formatting, characters or emphasis (such as bold, italics or underline). We acknowledge receipt and answer to all paper proposals submitted. If you do not receive a reply from us in a week you should assume we did not receive your proposal; it might be lost in cyberspace! We suggest, then, to look for an alternative electronic route or resend. Organising Chairs: Alejandro Cervantes-Carson Research Director, Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain E-Mail: [email protected] Rob Fisher Network Leader Inter-Disciplinary.Net, Freeland, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom E-Mail: [email protected] The conference is part of the Diversity and Recognition research projects, which in turn belong to the At the Interface programmes of Inter-Disciplinary.Net. It aims to bring together people from different areas and interests to share ideas and explore discussions which are innovative and challenging. All papers accepted for and presented at this conference are eligible for publication in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers may be invited to go forward for development into a themed ISBN hard copy volume. For further details about the project, please visit http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/strangers-aliens-and-foreigners/ For further details about the conference, please visit http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/strangers-aliens-and-foreigners/call-for-papers/ Contact: Dr Rob Fisher Inter-Disciplinary.Net Priory House, Wroslyn Road, Freeland, Oxfordshire, OX29 8HR United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)1993 882 087 Fax: +44 (0)870 460 1132 Email: [email protected] Web: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/at-the-interface/diversity-recognition/strangers-aliens-and-foreigners/call-for-papers/ __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
